We’ve put together some useful links, which you may find helpful:
NHS offers and discounts
- View the latest NHS offers and discounts, including information like opening times of supermarkets for NHS staff
Your health and wellbeing
These are worrying and stressful times for all, not just our patients but also our colleagues. Please links below that could help you and your colleagues over the coming weeks.
- NHS Employers has pulled together a range of support to help you and your teams stay well
- Public Health England’s Every Mind Matters campaign has lots of resources to support mental wellbeing
- Dr Fiona Day’s coping through COVID-19 for clinicians and leaders blog
- Mental health advice to help children and young people on our MindMate website
- Children’s guide to Coronavirus
- Young people with anxiety
- Adults with anxiety
- Information on mental health is also available on the local Mindwell website
- Jo Wicks personal workout videos – opens in YouTube
- In response to requests for self isolation sick notes please ask people to use online service
- Nurse in Southampton publishes book to help explain coronavirus to young children, available to download for free
- OneWellness provides online health and wellbeing classes, including yoga and high-energy boost workouts
- Wellbeing offer from the NHS People Plan – write up by Dr Gwyn Elias
What people need to know about coronavirus who have the following conditions:
- Pituitary/ adrenal insufficiency (including steroid sick day rules)
- Underlying lung disease
- Asthma
- Diabetes
– Sick day rules type 1 and type 2 diabetes - Children / young people with type 1 diabetes
- People affected by Stroke
- Heart / circulatory disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Cancer
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Parkinson’s disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Liver disease and liver transplant
- Kidney disease including dialysis
- Epilepsy
Pregnant women
Older people
Bereavement
- Bereavement resources and links – put together by Leeds Bereavement Forum
- Bereavement support for staff – specific resources that NHS staff can access
Key contact numbers
- We’ve put together some key contact numbers to help people through the coronavirus outbreak